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erfanjoker

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External microphone detection problem in arch linux

Hello, Its been nearly 4 years i'm using arch linux and even right now after all these years, i couldn't get my microphones working !
I have tried so many instructions in threads but no result ! , I have tried using iPhone handsfree's but they got detected only as a headphone
I have tried YW-001 microphone and it simply got detected as headphone in my sound output panel in pavucontrol !
I also have tried to get a USB SoundCard which separates I/O, and it did the trick and worked, but the problem is it supports 2-lined jacks and newly i got BY-M1 microphone which has 3-lined golden jack, and it just produces noise and no sound in my USB SoundCard

now my problem is i want to get my BY-M1 microphone get detected as sound input not sound output in my arch linux, my laptop has single I/O jack, i tried to set its profile to stereo input from duplex, but it doesnt work and it gets detected by sound output and when i connect it my system gets muted as it is outputting sound to a headphone

tell me if you want output of any command

erfanjoker

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Re: External microphone detection problem in arch linux

here is output :

^^>>> arecord -l                                             04:27:38 
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC269VC Analog [ALC269VC Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

erfanjoker

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Re: External microphone detection problem in arch linux

Also here is my complete details of alsa

V1del

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Re: External microphone detection problem in arch linux

Disable the auto-mute control in alsamixer  to prevent speaker muting, whether that helps with using it as a microphone is unclear, single jacks for this have always been a pain and have very dodgy support. I suppose you could try unmuting the mic control but I'd assume your best bet is a PIN override with hdajackretask.

So

amixer -c0 set 'Mic',0 on
amixer -c0 set  'Auto-Mute Mode',0 'Disabled'

Also please edit your first post rather than bumping if you want to add new information and no one else has posted yet.

behnaamxi

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Registered: 2020-03-18

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Re: External microphone detection problem in arch linux

I have the same exact issue, with all of the headphones and hands-free that i tested.
After 2 month of trying and searching i still have the same exact issue with any headphone or hands-frees i just can use output sound and the input sound never detected for me.
I read wiki, tried many many times, searched a lot but still i can't fix this problem!

After 2 month of searching anywhere for the problem, i believed that it can't be solved. but whenever you solved this please let me know!

arecord -l  ==>

**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC662 rev1 Analog [ALC662 rev1 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 2: ALC662 rev1 Alt Analog [ALC662 rev1 Alt Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Last edited by behnaamxi (2020-03-19 03:47:08)

erfanjoker

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Re: External microphone detection problem in arch linux

Disable the auto-mute control in alsamixer  to prevent speaker muting, whether that helps with using it as a microphone is unclear, single jacks for this have always been a pain and have very dodgy support. I suppose you could try unmuting the mic control but I'd assume your best bet is a PIN override with hdajackretask.

So

amixer -c0 set 'Mic',0 on
amixer -c0 set  'Auto-Mute Mode',0 'Disabled'

Also please edit your first post rather than bumping if you want to add new information and no one else has posted yet.

I tried the commands but not working, i get sound muted again whenever i plug mic, also tried to buy a jack separator (image is linked), and i tried to connect mic to its mic input, but not working again, it detects the whole jack separator as speaker, even if there is a device connected to it or not

Last edited by erfanjoker (2020-03-21 16:42:34)